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Eduard Seyder
- Accession Number
- 2011-3-7
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2011-3-7
- Material Format
- graphic material (electronic)
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph (tiff) : b&w ; 355 MB
- 1 folder of textual records
- Date
- 1941-1945
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of one photograph of Eduard Seyder in military uniform that was taken between 1944 and 1945, and one Russian-German dictionary that was printed in Moscow to help soldiers interrogate German prisoners of war.
- Custodial History
- Photograph was scanned and returned to donor.
- Part of the Russian Jewish War Veterans oral history program.
- Administrative History
- Eduard Seyder was born in Odessa in 1926. He enlisted as a volunteer in the Russian military as a (sub) machine-gunner in December 1943 and participated in the 3rd Belarusian Front. His detachment pursued, disarmed and captured Germans who were retreating. His company consisted of 120 men, but only 32 survived over 2 months. He later fought near Kenigsberg, East Prussia, in Signals Regiment.
- Use Conditions
- Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.
- Descriptive Notes
- A copy jpg was created from the tiff image.
- Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945
- Soviet Union--Armed Forces
- Source
- Archival Accessions